How much quicker will this make our response time to tragedies such as the Christmas Tsunami and the Japanese Earthquake-Tsunami and nuclear plants disaster?
I am mostly pleased about this new relationship with Australia and ponder as to why it hasn't happened before now.
We could have helped immeasurably with the New Zealand earthquakes.
The scientific missions into Antarctica take place off the southern coast of New Zealand, too. We have many important and valuable people in the southern hemisphere. I find it odd there hasn't been more involvement before.continued...
I realize that China feels somewhat threatened, but, my concern is; WHY? Have we not been involved in peaceful initiatives with China from the beginning. I believe the paranoya of the USA with China and possibly Russia stems from faux sources. Not that the Neocons of the Bush Era are faux sources, but, for as misguided as that administration was under the dictatorship of Richard Cheney, the USA cannot completely be measured by the events that followed September 11, 2001.
I believe there is a great deal of HOPE FOR GLOBAL PEACE in the relationships the USA has with the other nuclear nations. And to measure this decision by the USA to stablize and strengthen its relationship with Australia as a means to Pacific domination, the Chinese and Russians needs to ask themselves if that is a realistic outcome. I think not. The people of the USA don't like war. Distain it actually. If I were the leaders of Russia and China I would make the most of that reality in relation to their concerns and possibly fears.
The Pacific nations also have to realize, this President has a special perspective on the Pacific region of Earth. He hails from Hawaii and was with his mother while she worked in Indonesia. I think the global community can give him some latitude in that understanding.
